"The moistest cake you've ever tasted!" just turns me off. I think it's because of the word moist. No matter how moist a cake is, I still don't want the word moist to describe it. I'm probably just weird like that though.

speaking of discount cake. I saw a women take a cake from the day old bakery rack and tell the random stranger next to her that this was perfect for the birthday party she was having NEXT week. I was horrified. I bet the part goers were too.

Now I am really worried. The snow on my roof is covered with squirrel footprints. (It's a long story; my roof and oak tree are part of a giant Disney ride for the neighborhood squirrels.) Does this mean I will soon have tons of bright blue icing on my roof?

#1 Let's see... the cake is sealed inside approximately three times its own weight in frosting, so I suppose it could well be the 'moistest' cake ever.

#2 (Applies to most of these, really...) If you wreck a wreck, do you get a normal cake? Apparently not.

#3 "Hey, Sue -- Melissa just called again -- it's 'Alex' for sure." Sue: "I'll make sure no one can tell there was a change. Heh heh."

#4 Art is knowing when to stop making improvements. "'Congrats' looked fine when it was centered, honest!"

#5 Was originally 'Baby Chower' perhaps? Not proceeding one inch further down that line of inquiry.

#6 Manager: "You messed it up, you fix it." Wreckerator: "Ok, I'll fix it. By the way, this is my last day..."

#7 'Congratulation(s)...!' Who could tell anything had changed? Nice to know subtlety is not dead.

#8 "What?! I thought they had finally decided on 'Hortense'! If I just put a slab of fondant over it, everyone will know there was a boo-boo. I know -- just write 'Baby' over it! Just like correcting a typo. I deserve a raise for this kind of fast thinking."

Regarding BABY Baby shower, what is that on the bottom? I think the blobs on the left are an albino butterfly, or some sort of snow moth. But what is the other thing? A kiwi catching a baseball? I've blown the photo up and still can't get a handle on it.

I actually gasped at the valentine one. I mean, really. The wreckerator couldn't throw a little icing on top to cover up the gouges? Is this a frozen cake? How do you even get gouges in icing?

I also love the stray exclamation point on the graduation cake. And, if you are going to "fix" the cake anyway, why not go ahead and take off the 2010? And again with the gouging....perhaps it is a symbolic reference to how much these wrecks cost!

Oh, and the Baby Shower with a noose cake - I thought the original writing might have been Flower. Baby Flower - which made me think of Flower the skunk from Bambi. Which might explain the pink ribbon noose. Someone has a skunk problem at home and thought they would put out a cake to entice the critter and catch it in the noose. Or not.

Ah! I skipped the names at the bottom today! I had to go back and read them after seeing the comments. I should know better by now. :o)

On the first one I see an Egyptian hieroglyphics-type eye in the bottom left corner and nothing’s as freaky as food looking at me looking at it. o.O

On the pink one I saw the ribbon rope on the bottom and thought “yuck” but didn’t notice the sperm/noose in the bottom right corner. Sperm/Noose – doesn’t that just about sum it up for how some men get trapped into a relationship??

Not sure exactly how prestigious that is, but I was asked to name 6 blogs that I enjoy and yours definitely made that list! I just posted about it and the post includes all the significant things you need to do to live up to "stylish blogger" status (if you so choose). In any case, thanks for being entertaining.

So I know the graduation cake. Back in April or May, the Springville High School had their graduation. I remember that cake. The customer didn't want it (surprise!) so the name got scraped off and the cake tossed in the case in the hopes that some desperate mother would buy it last minute. I almost died laughing when I saw the picture on this site, I told the decorator who made the cake that she was famous, or rather, that her cake was famous. She wasn't as amused as the rest of us were.

The last cake, on it's lower right, has some weird object, and I noticed it on another baby cake. What the hell is that supposed to be??? I have had a baby and I don't recognize that as anything my kid had. Ever.

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